This is the most honest take on Dusk. The tech is profound, but its real-world success hinges on turning institutional need into genuine user adoption and on-chain activity. 

I have seen too many so-called 'privacy public chains' that either become hacker cash-out machines due to poor technology or directly become dark web exclusive coins under regulatory pressure, after which the team disappears. But this project, @dusk_foundation, has made me rethink a key question: what should true on-chain privacy look like? Especially now that traditional finance is starting to seriously consider blockchain.
$DUSK I have been following this coin for almost a year, from the launch of DuskDS mainnet last January to now, exactly one year. What has happened in the entire crypto market during this year? AI concept coins have skyrocketed and plummeted, the RWA sector has gone from being ignored to major institutions rushing in, and meme coins continue to harvest retail investors. Meanwhile, Dusk has been like a stealth player, quietly building infrastructure in the background. With a market cap of only $29 million, it feels like a joke in a market where everyone is shouting for valuations in the hundreds of billions.